Posits - a new approach could sink floating point computation

I think posits are an interesting idea, but I’m somewhat skeptical: a lot of the examples proposed by Gustafson seem a little too convenient, or rely on arguments appealing to a sufficiently smart compiler to do various stability transformations. I think more real-world test cases like @milankl’s are useful to identify the exact benefits.

Two interesting articles on posits I’ve liked quite liked are:

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